With the baby boomer generation barreling into retirement, the need and value of personal financial planning has increased. Why? In large measure, the baby boomers will be the first generation unable to rely on pensions to help fund their retirement. Continue reading at kansascity.com

Banks, at Odds With Personal Finance Sites, Disrupt Service

The uneasy relationship between banks and companies that use their data to provide personal finance services has shown signs of fraying in recent months, causing some frustrating disruptions in service to people trying to track their spending. Who knew … Continue reading at abcnews.go.com

Consumers Left in Dark When Banks Cut Off Online Finance Services

“The retail financial industry is sort of coming to a point that ‘adapt or become a dinosaur’ is truer than ever,” said Ramya Joseph, a former trader and analyst at Goldman Sachs who founded the soon-to-launch personal finance startup Pefin.com. Continue reading at cnbc.com

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PERSONAL FINANCE: Is that free blanket really worth it?

One hundred and twenty minutes. That is what a certain football stadium owes me, a fan for more than 40 years, for the time I spent during three games waiting in line for a coffee. The first two times I walked away after a half-hour wait with no coffee. Continue reading at thespec.com

Souqalmal.com Launches New Personal Finance Calculators

In response to this statistic, Souqalmal.com has launched three new personal finance calculators to help residents better manage their financial affairs and avoid taking on debt they cannot afford. The number of loans granted to UAE residents in the first … Continue reading at marketwatch.com

5 Reasons Inmates Should Be Taught Financial Literacy

Prison education is a well-established factor in preventing relapses. One of the areas in direst need of education is personal finance, as many inmates are unprepared for the outside world upon release. Unfortunately, due to lack of funding, there are few … Continue reading at investopedia.com

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MILWAUKEE (AP) -- Republicans Jeb Bush and Ben Carson sought to steady their presidential campaigns in Tuesday night’s GOP debate, with Bush taking advantage of a policy-focused contest to detail positions on the economy and immigration while Carson … Continue reading at mankatofreepress.com

Banks block personal finance sites

The uneasy relationship between banks and companies that use their data to provide personal finance services has shown signs of fraying in recent months, causing some frustrating disruptions in service to people trying to track their spending. Who knew … Continue reading at twincities.com

9 Ways to Protect Yourself From Elder Financial Abuse

Weiss is an experienced financial services industry executive and entrepreneur. He is an Executive in Residence at the University of Hartford, a member of its business school's board and co-founder of the university's Center for Personal Financial … Continue reading at blog.credit.com

Personal Finance: New retirement savings plan is a good start

The looming crisis in retirement saving among American workers is now well documented. According to one recent paper from the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis at the New School, 68 percent of the working age population is not participating in … Continue reading at timesfreepress.com

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Professional angels are lawyers, accountants, and doctors who want to make investments in companies that offer a service or product with which they have little experience. Their main goal of investing is to be hired by the business at the same time as consultant in their area of expertise.

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